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Partner Plants
You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours. While neither may have an itch (or even fingernails for that matter), two organisms find themselves...
9:10 am, September 11, 2026
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Azures in the Air
Spring Azure Complex is not a physiological condition listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
10:50 am, September 4, 2026
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Wood Lilies
Mary Gibson Henry would not have been deterred. She would have stomped right through the field of ticks and poison ivy to look at the wood lilies. I...
12:30 pm, August 28, 2026
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Spiny Oysters
Fossil Fred Hotchkiss is still making discoveries.
12:05 pm, August 21, 2026
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Zucchini Season
Be a kook for zukes. Grow them, love them and eat ridiculous amounts of them. Tis the season.
11:30 am, August 14, 2026
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Blooming
Alan Bloom was destined for a life among flowers. With that name and his family business of market gardening, it must have been preordained.
10:25 am, August 7, 2026
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Fantastic Fungi
It took a couple of botanical Billies to describe and document a giant of the fungal world.
10:50 am, July 31, 2026
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Seaside Dragonlet
Queen Berenice’s romantic romps were well documented.
11:00 am, July 24, 2026
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Swamp Azaleas
Pick your poison — or, better yet, leave it alone.
10:10 am, July 17, 2026
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Virginia Rose
At first blush, it seemed to be just a flower.
10:45 am, July 10, 2026
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Thistle Me This
Thomas Nuttall had a sharp opinion of a pointy plant. Of thistle, this 19th-century English botanist opined that it is “one of the most terribly...
11:40 am, July 3, 2026
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Aphid Lions
John Henry Comstock and James Needham might have been winging it when they first imagined a system for insect venation.
11:50 am, June 26, 2026
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